Protocol Ecologies

Context

Benjamin Life:

"Nathan Schneider’s work on protocol ecologies, building on his earlier Governable Spaces and extending into new territory around what he’s called “a protocol society,” provides the theoretical scaffolding. Schneider, a media studies professor at the University of Colorado Boulder who has spent years studying how governance works (and fails) in digital communities, argues that every act of writing code is an act of regulation, every protocol a kind of law. His insight that protocols aren’t merely technical artifacts but governance instruments, patterns that distribute or concentrate power, is foundational for understanding why the design of social protocols is a political act."

(https://omniharmonic.substack.com/p/protocols-of-place)